xmlto pdf target not working

[Ondřej Surý]

Even an simples docbook cannot be converted to PDF due some bugs in toolchain:

$ xmlto pdf x.xml
Making portrait pages on a4 paper (209.9028mm x 297.0389mm)
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
entering extended mode
(./tmp.fo
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8d> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german, ngerman, b
ahasa, basque, bulgarian, catalan, croatian, czech, danish, dutch, esperanto, e
stonian, finnish, greek, icelandic, irish, italian, latin, magyar, norsk, polis
h, portuges, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, spanish, swedish, tur
kish, ukrainian, nohyphenation, loaded.
xmltex version: 2002/06/25 v1.9 (Exp):
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/xmltex/config/xmltex.cfg)
No File: tmp.cfg (/usr/share/texmf/tex/xmltex/passivetex/fotex.xmt)
(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/xmltex/passivetex/fotex.sty
)
No file tmp.aux.
(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/cyrillic/t2acmr.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/base/ts1cmr.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/psnfss/t1ptm.fd)
No file tmp.out.
No file tmp.out.
INFO: Using normal, i.e. nonfrench-spacing in document
(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/psnfss/t1phv.fd) [1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map/
pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
Overfull \vbox (10.0pt too high) has occurred while \output is active [2]
Overfull \vbox (10.0pt too high) has occurred while \output is active [3]
(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsa.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/amsfonts/umsb.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/wasysym/uwasy.fd)
(/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/stmaryrd/ustmry.fd) [4]

! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
 ...

l.304 ..." hyphenation-remain-character-count="2">
                                                  Chapter 1. Test chapter<...

?
! Emergency stop.
 ...

l.304 ..." hyphenation-remain-character-count="2">
                                                  Chapter 1. Test chapter<...

! ==> Fatal error occurred, the output PDF file is not finished!
Transcript written on tmp.log.

$ cat x.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" [
]>
<book lang="en">
  <bookinfo>
    <title>Test</title>
  </bookinfo>
  <chapter>
    <title>Test chapter</title>
    <para>Test</para>
  </chapter>
</book>

[Miguel Cabrera (mfcabrera)]

I can confirm this bug. I went to the software's page for more information about the software, and possible open bugs, but I found a pretty old page and no usefull information.